Richard Hickson

Ignoring saved credentials when mounting Network shares

Rich — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:18:32 +0000

More and more I am encountering that i need to mount a network share (mainly my IT folder) from other peoples Mac’s. The user obviously doesn’t have read access to this folder and their username and password is saved in the keychain.

I have found a way to mount it avoiding using the users saved credentials. In the safari address bar type the following.

afp://username:password@server/share

This will mount the share using the credentials you supply.

Apple Software Update looking for old update server

Rich — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:57:33 +0000

I have had a mac that was looking for an old OSX Software update server that has been offline for the past Christ knows how long!

Needless to say anything i have tried (deleting preference files, The software update app) and a whole bunch of other stuff didn’t work!

Until i searched and found this - http://blog.rtwilson.com/how-to-reset-the-software-update-url-in-os-x/

The Blog itself was something I had tried before. But – The comment by Jacob was a winner!

sudo find / -type f -name com.apple.SoftwareUpdate\* -exec rm -f {} \;

This worked for me, but if you try it yourself – please not it is at your own risk!

Internet Speed

Rich — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:24:25 +0000

So I’ve now got BT Infinity at home..

Speed Tests below

Cabled into router

Wifi

Wired Vpn to my Office

Computer Locked by Police Center e-crime Unit Virus

Rich — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:36:40 +0000

So a family member phoned me up at work, saying there computer had been locked and they couldnt get out of it. I remoted in using teamviewer, and this was the screen that awaited me.

I rebooted into safemode and reconnected, logged in as both users and i had the same thing happen. I worked out that if you log off and log back on again, There is just enough time to call up task manager and terminate explorer.exe.

This then left me free to update malwarebytes and run it. After a reboot and another full scan just to make sure, the problem was gone!

LOL

Rich — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:09:24 +0000

Gmail not displaying correctly in Chrome on Mac

Rich — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:50:38 +0000

Is your Gmail displaying like this?

I tried to fix this a number of ways. Logging out of chrome, deleting my user, resync’ing chrome with everything. Eventually all of this worked. But i found out an easier way……

CMD & O Keys pushed together resets the zoom level back to default and fixed all my problems…

Error Code 0×80070017 Error installing Windows 7 or Vista

Rich — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:12:26 +0000

When you install Windows 7 (or Vista) you may get the following message:

Error 0×80070017 Windows cannot copy files required for installation. These files may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installtion are available, and restart the installation Error code: 0×80070017

This can be displayed with error code 0×80070017 or error code 0×80070570 in Windows 7 or Vista

Cause
The cause is very simple and you can probably guess from the error code in the screenshot above. The cause is that Windows cannot verify the files.

Simple Solution
Burn or get a new copy of the disk (Burn at a slow Speed 2x and use quality media.

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This was replicated from a Google archive here

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://benosullivan.co.uk/windows/are-you-getting-error-code-0×80070017-error-installing-windows-7-or-vista/

Looks like the original authour Ben O’Sullivan is no longer online

Sky Plus System Fault 06-0

Rich — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:25:57 +0000

I have just upgrade our Sky account to multiroom. I purchased a sky plus hd box off ebay without a harddisk and have installed a 500gb WesternDigital drive in there. Obviously there is no programs to copy off another box or anything. So I just installed it without using copy+ however I’m getting the System Fault – Sky Playback and recording are unavailable.

Ive phoned sky on the number and explained. They have reset the box (which I had already done) Rebuilt the planner (already done) and resent the signal to the card.

None of this has worked. I have tried to do a reset holding down the left and right buttons after killing the power, but all that happens is I get the Black sky please wait screen and then the box goes back into standby.

Anyone got any ideas?

Useful Links April 2012

Rich — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:00:42 +0000

HiJackThis log file Analyser - http://hijackthis.de/#anl

Old Version – Has previous versions of lots of different software – http://www.oldversion.com/

Online Virus Scanner – For Files, Zips, Rars all scanned by 10+ Different Virus Scanners – http://virusscan.jotti.org/en

Axis Camera Station

Rich — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:54:16 +0000

Lost the media for your Axis Camera Station and need to do a reinstall?

There older versions of the software are available on the site through a small pretty well hidden link.

Needless to say i found it, and its here http://www.axis.com/ftp/pub_soft/cam_srv/cam_station/